Laura H. Kahn

Dr. Laura H. Kahn, a physician, is a research scholar with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. (https://www.princeton.edu/sgs/faculty-staff/laura-kahn/) She is a monthly online columnist for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (http://thebulletin.org/bio/laura-h-kahn).

A native of California, Dr. Kahn holds a B.S. degree in nursing from UCLA, an M.D. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, a Master of Public Health from Columbia University and a Master of Public Policy from Princeton University. Dr. Kahn is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and is a recipient of the New Jersey Chapter's Laureate Award. She is a recipient of the 2014 Presidential Award for Meritorious Service from the American Association of Public Health Physicians. She is an honorary fellow of the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES).

From 2003 to 2009, she organized the Carnegie Corporation sponsored biodefense seminar series at Princeton University. (https://www.princeton.edu/sgs/seminars/biosecurity/archives/)

In April 2006, Dr. Kahn published Confronting Zoonoses, Linking Human and Veterinary Medicine in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/4/05-0956_article. She co-edited a One Health monograph in the Veterinaria Italiana Journal's 2009 - Volume 45 (1), January-March http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_1/45_1.htm.

Her first book, "Who's in Charge? Leadership During Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and other Public Health Crises," was published by Praeger Security International in September 2009. Her second book, "One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance," is being published in August 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press.